A Shameless study in plot and character
      
        
      
      
      
    
  
    
      
        
      
      Christoph Waltz explains his love, and mine, for Tarantino's dialogue 
      
        
      
      
      
    
  
    
      
        
      
      An Homage to The Shining
      
        
      
      
        Art, Essays, Popular CultureJessica McCraryAmerican culture, Architecture, art, film, icon, pop culture, snow days, winter, writing
       
      
    
  
    
      
        
      
      Reading Robert Traver: a big murder in a small town
      
        
      
      
        Essays, Family, Identity, Popular Culture, Reading listJessica McCrarycrime novel, family history, fiction, inspiration, Michigan, Michigan history, reading, writing
       
      
    
  
    
      
        
      
      Food for thought: working at McDonald's
      
        
      
      
      
    
  
    
      
        
      
      "Well, when you get hungry enough, you're gonna figure it out"
      
        
      
      
      
    
  
    
      
        
      
      The Life and Times of Things
      
        
      
      
        Essays, History and Memory, Identity, Popular Culture, Public HistoryJessica McCraryeconomics, Marketplace, material culture, meaning, objects and meaning, value
       
      
    
  
    
      
        
      
      American Dream, sure, but also, Chinese Dream, French Dream: a changing reality
      
        
      
      
      
    
  
    
      
        
      
      Create in NYC, or: fabric that I love and other things
      
        
      
      
      
    
  
    
      
        
      
      Graphic and thoughtful: Bits of MoMA
      
        
      
      
      
    
  
    
      
        
      
      A collection [On National Geographic love, and deciding what to keep]
      
        
      
      
      
    
  
    
      
        
      
      TV Show: on urban white girls in 2012
      
        
      
      
      
    
  
    
      
        
      
      Expectant parents, back away from the baby-name books
      
        
      
      
      
    
  
    
      
        
      
      Touching the Quilt, learning its stories
      
        
      
      
      
    
  
    
      
        
      
      A movie about culture, to influence our culture today
      
        
      
      
      
    
  
    
      
        
      
      On marriage, gender, income, babies, single ladies
      
        
      
      
      
    
  
    
      
        
      
      1988: "History will record..."
      
        
      
      
      
    
  
    
      
        
      
      My Pop Art Series
      
        
      
      
      
    
  
    
      
        
      
      "With the digital age come new conceptions of authorship."
      
        
      
      
      
    
  
    
      
        
      
      On Christmas and material memory